*new*DOCTOR
ADAMS in a film titled The Ultimate Team. An article
about this futuristic action film, supposedly set to be released in 2007,
was about to be deleted from Wikipedia last time we checked. A hoax?
Mere wishful thinking?

BENEDICT
in The Last Action Hero. Charles Dance got the part
instead, but his copy of the script still contained references to AR.
Dance’s reaction was to wear a t-shirt on the set that said “I’m
cheaper than Alan Rickman”.

ALIESTER
CROWLEY in the as yet unmade film biography written by Snoo Wilson
tentatively called The Beast.

Source:
The
Scotsman, September 6, 1998.

DEELEY
in Harold Pinter's Old Times *new*

Source: Variety announcement on August 21, 2006, also
picked up by Broadwayworld.com 8-22-06. Playbill.com posted an article
on October 17, 2006 citing casting problems. There is hope that this
is merely a postponement, however.

DEL
in the David Mamet Play, The Cryptogram.

Source:
The
Independent in April, 1994.

GEORGE
in a Broadway production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Source:
New
York Post, August 23, 2002 (Theatre Column).

HEADMASTER
in
film short
Death of the Revolution . AR was cast but
not used because it was feared he would overshadow the children.

COUNT
OLOF in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
The author of the books on which the film is based says that Alan Rickman
was his first choice for this role, but AR was already busy making Harry
Potter movies.

Source:
National Public Radio interview with Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler(NPR--All
Things Considered, 12-16-2004).

JUAN PERON in Evita.

Source:
Paton, p. 215.

MEREDITH POTTER in An Awfully Big Adventure

Source:
Paton, p. 216.

BRYAN
RICHARDSON in a Stephen Spielberg film tentatively called Coventry
City--the Movie.

Source:
London
Free Press (London, Ontario, Canada), June 27, 1997, in an article
about Canadian actor Colin Feore who was said to play John Adams
in the miniseries. He ended up playing Alexander Hamilton, and Stephen
Lang played George Washington.

You
can learn more about the series here: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/liberty.html

DR.
WHO in one of his many incarnations.

Source:
This has been a persistent rumor for years.

Unknown
role in The Actors.

Source:
Soho
Independent, in February 2001 (among other places).

Unknown
role in an Arena program about George Orwell, BBC, c1983?

Source:
Credit on the Blind Corner (recorded book) box.

Unknown
role in Bonnie Prince Charley, television documentary.

Source:
Listed in Alan’s resume in Contemporary Theatre, Film and TV, vol.
26.Probably
a phantom entry.

Unknown
role in Brown Sugar with Alfre Woodard.

Source:
The
Daily News of Los Angeles, April 28, 1998.

Unknown
role in Four Last Songs. *new*

Source:
First announced on The Leaky Cauldron in 2004 (mis-titled “For Our Sons”),
then listed on http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/comingsoon/fourlastsongs.shtml
without AR’s name. IMDB has a 2007 release date.

Unknown
role in Good Will Hunting.

Source:
www.2launch.com/ben_affleck.html (as of 3/27/97).

Unknown
role in a French film by Jacky Cukier titled Infrequentables.

Source:
Premiere
France, April-May 2000.

Unknown
role in Journey to the Top of the World , proposed film based
on the travel journal by Alexandra David-Neel called Journal de Voyage.

Source:
advertisement for the book.

Unknown
role in The Palace Thief (Kevin Kline's best friend?).

Source:
Annova.com on 2/13/01.

Unknown
role in film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.

Source:
Hollywood
Reporter in April, 2004.(perhaps
the role that eventually went to Ciaran Hinds?)

Unknown
role in Manchester United Ruined My Life, based on the novel
by Colin Shindler. Film has not been made due to lack of funding.

Source:
there are announcements for this film all over the Internet, including
these:http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3924http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1156

Unknown
role in Poetry, 1983 film with Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde.

The
entry on Alan Rickman ends with this intriguing statement, "...Rickman
should have made his film debut five years earlier than he did, but
a 1983 project with Dirk Bogarde and Glenda Jackson was aborted at the
last minute."

Still
scratching my head over that one.

Unknown
or cameo role in Standing Room Only.

Source:
IMDB for over a year. The entry was removed shortly after the film
was released

Unknown
villainous alien in any number of Star Trek movies.

Source:
This is another persistent rumor which originated in an April Fools spoof.

Unknown role in Wanted a proposed movie about the Baader-Meinhoff
gang.

Source:
http://movies.go.com/movies/W/wanted_2002/index.html.

*new*Unknown
role in Zodiac, a film about the Zodiac Killer released in
2007.

Source:
Internet rumor picked up and passed around by various websites.For
example: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021960/bio

Director
of The Alice Trilogy, November-December 2005 at the Royal
Court.Actual
director is Ian Rickson.